Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023

Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023
$38, 12.9% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

This wine is characterised by its long lines of elegant flavour. It tastes of wheat, bacon, stonefruit and apricot kernels, which might make it sound as if the fruit flavours themselves are lacking, but they’re not. It’s just that it feels seamless and complex in an easy-going way, the core of fruit inlaid with savouriness. It all works (very) nicely. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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